Andy Serkis, best known for providing the voice and motion capture for Gollum in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, gets some face time in the lead role in TheCottage, a twisted black comedy/slasher film coming to DVD on May 13. Serkis and Reece Shearsm...
...o her, so thecottage isn\'t exactly a happy place to be - but no sooner does the US military arrive than Yomiko and Anita arrive with a high-value hostage, hoping to buy them some time. Unfortunately, that gives the ever-resourceful Wendy time to pla...
...e
back of thecottage to find the cutest stuffed panda you ever saw sitting on a
bench by the wall. Mimiko is thrilled with her discovery and gives the panda a
big hug, only to realise it’s not a stuffed panda, it’s a real one!! Panny
(that’s his name)...
...Williams (TheCottage). The film---which has begun shooting in the UK---will star Rachel Shelley ("L Word"), Stephen Campbell Moore (The Bank Job), Eva Birthistle, Eva Sayer and Jeremy Sheffield (Creep). Plot Concept: The story centers aroun...
One of the most fulfilling aspects of investigating secret societies and faux chivalric orders is the thrill of finally nailing a fake artifact or fabricated document relating to a long, arduous and protracted scam.
My very first catch involved a well-k...
...e.
Thus thecottage industry of books and documentaries that grew from seeds first sown in "Holy Blood"—and culminating in Dan Brown's blockbuster novel The Da Vinci Code—seems assured of a long life so long as&nb...
James Cawley, the man who moonlights as Capt. Kirk in his own fan venture Star Trek: New Voyages / Phase 2, is in a bit of a predicament after one of his online episodes caught the attention of the Science Fiction Writers of America. The script for &ldquo...
... three in TheCottage Tales of Beatrix Potter series.
The Silver Lake, Fiona Patton (Penguin Group USA)
In Anavatan, the city of the Silver Lake, the gods manifest on a regular basis. But if you are among the unpledged, it is ha...
Former Vegas showgirl Cassandra Peterson made a new career for herself in 1981 when she donned a weird but sexy outfit to host horror movies on a local Los Angeles TV station, much in the manner of Vampira. Her show MOVIE MACABRE was such a hit that it wa...
When Hellboy II: The Golden Army marches into theaters on July 11, it will have more in common with fairy tales and bedtime stories than with big, green, angry men or men in iron suits. Hellboy II packs a huge modern summer wallop while keeping a foot fir...
With seemingly magical ease, Enchanted pulls off the difficult feat of both parodying and embodying the archetypal Disney animated princess fantasy. There’s a clash of animation and live-action here, but rather than having the two exist side-by-side...
It seems that the superheroes of Justice League must get through the Federal Government before attempting to save the world on the silver screen. The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that pre-production has been delayed on the 200 million WB film due to...
She’s played a presidential candidate amidst a sex scandal in The Contender, went against type as the heavy in the Bourne series and now she’s a sadistic prison warden in director Paul W.S. Anderson’s Death Race, a re-do of Roger Corman&...
If you don't know who Richard Matheson is, then I pity you. Matheson is a writer who has won the Hugo Award, the Edgar Allan Poe Award, the Writers Guild Award and numerous life achievement awards. But wait, that's not all. He has also written many screen...
In case you haven't seen it yet, the HOODWINKED trailer is available on Apple.com. The animated comedy features the voices of Glenn Close, Anne Hathaway, Jim Belushi, Patrick Warburton, Anthony Anderson, David Ogden Stiers, XZIBIT, Chazz Palminteri, and ...
It’s really hard to imagine someone wandering into Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix cold, without having seen the previous films and/or read the books, which is a good thing, because this latest entry in the cinematic series makes no conces...
Was it the script that scuttled 'Justice League'? The cast? Or was it those Australian tax incentives after all? An article In the Sydney Morning Herald says the tax issue is real and, unless questions are answered, the Warner Bros/DC Comics mega movie wi...
Some people say that living in a big city will help a man become a more social creature and learn certain intricacies about human culture that simple folk will never pick up on. Is that really true? I was born and raised in a small Bavarian village. In th...
On this holiday weekend, where everyone is traveling here or jetting off there, one lesser known vacation alternative also happens to be one of the coolest: that ever-enticing sci-fi trope, time travel. With it come the eternal questions that speak to the...
HOODWINKED is a comedic animated family feature starring James Belushi, Andy Dick, Anne Hathaway and Cory Edwards that will release nationwide on December 25th, 2005. In the re-telling of this classic fable, the story begins at the end. Chief Grizzly (Xzi...
What can you say about a year where a 20 million dollar production like Beowulf was one of year’s worst DTV (direct-to-video) films, while one of the better genre DTV titles of the year was David DeCoteau’s The Brotherhood, reportedly produced for under...
Terry Moore remains one of the most successful independent comic book creators in the business today, having based the large part of his career entirely on his own series, STRANGERS IN PARADISE, which chronicles the lives and loves of lifetime friends Kat...
The article at BusinessWeek will probably be eye-opening for some as it tackles the Japanese anime industry (and really doesn\'t touch it in the US beyond a few key areas - no US licensing companies are truly mentioned) and there\'s a heavy focus on Yumet...
When you think about it, RoboCop, one of the reigning icons of cyborg cinema, was created by criminals. Though there have been many knock-offs of ROBOCOP, they’ve all been heroes (villainous cyborgs are patterned after THE TERMINATOR). But in this 1997 fe...
...ns out of thecottage, jumps off a cliff following the voice, and gets transported to the Himalayas in a blink. There, he encounters the monster from his nightmare: Demon Lord Dante, who had been sealed in ice for 2000 years! Hideous murders, Satanis...
Executive Producer Robert Halmi, Sr. has made himself a near patron saint to fantasy lovers. His previous works The Odyssey, Merlin and Alice in Wonderland have been ratings winners and, on the most part, some of the best of television-fantastique to hit...
The story of Jason and the Argonauts, with its bravery, adventure and tragedy, remains one of world literature’s most exciting and moving tales, and one of the most influential quest myths in the world. It has been translated and retold for centuries, bu...
...refuge in thecottage. Forced to go on an errand of mercy during a night of the full moon, Ariel finds legend crashing into reality. She meets a mysterious stranger, Louvel, in the forest. He will not allow her to see his face, but still strangely capt...
We all heard the lullaby when we were children: "When the wind blows, the cradle will rock…" Our mothers sang it to us before we fell asleep, or our fathers did, or else it was the dog if he got stuck babysitting again.
It's a ...
I left my first experience at San Diego Comic Con behind a bit sadly. Aside from a few awkward moments with editors and comics professionals (never underestimate my ability to say the wrong thing at the wrong time), I had a great time and will likely retu...
What They SayAs the one year anniversary of her mother\'s death looms on the horizon, Tohru Honda is forced to take inventory of her life. Over the past 12 months she remained strong and focused despite her personal tragedy by becoming a valued member of ...
...ector of THECOTTAGE (Read our review of it here). So there you have it! The 28 MONTHS LATER wheels are in motion! Arrow out!This one could very well be true, Maniacs. TheCottage turned a few heads this year and 28 Days Later creator-executive produ...
Some days you eat the bear. Some days, the bear eats you. So goes an old Russian proverb, which explains that some days are just better than others. It’s a simple bit of wisdom that would seem to apply also to the world of home video. Last Tuesday’s re...
On the night of Friday, October 13th, at the recently restored Vista Theater (where Hollywood meets Los Feliz), fans converged for the 30th Anniversary Celebration of HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS, the feature film version of the Gothic soap opera from the ‘60s. ...
What a peculiar subgenre this is: a comic book adaptation of a live-action feature film derived from a comic book. Surely there can be no more mind-bending recursive exercise than this. How to take what is often a watered-down, less dynamic version of a c...
As digital video has become a legitimate format for feature film production, we pause this week to look back on how home video has played a major part in the evolution of motion pictures over the past two decades or so. Remember, once EVIL DEAD was just a...
Demi Moore has agreed to star in HALF-LIGHT, a new thriller being produced by Lakeshore Entertainment. Screenwriter Craig Rosenberg (AFTER THE SUNSET) will direct the picture from his own screenplay. Shooting is expected to commence this coming August in ...
It seems Steven Spielberg asked to direct a STAR WARS film as far back as RETURN OF THE JEDI, and was denied by pal and WARS creator George Lucas. "I've asked him!" Spielberg said. "He won't let me do one... I wanted to do one 15 years ago and he didn't ...
Long before Dark Horse made STAR WARS into a comic book cottage industry, Marvel Comics tackled the challenge of expanding on George Lucas' galaxy far, far away with a monthly comic that occasionally delved into bizarre territory (a pastel-hued talking ra...
VIDEO NEWSInstead of my usual rantings about upcoming releases and cheezy filmmakers, I'd like to offer a few pixels in tribute to the recent passing of Pauline Kael, probably the most influential person to ever review a film. In her columns for THE NEW Y...
You’re interested in the strange, the unusual — the unexplainable. That’s why you are here. However, you can’t find strange, unusual and unexplainable soundtrack music in your Wal-Mart. For that you have to surf the Internet and discover an entire cottage...
There's been considerable publicity over the recent sale and destruction of Roger Corman's fabled Venice Beach studios. The former New World Pictures and later New Horizon studios - which brought us everything from BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS and DEATHRACE 20...
When a movie of any genre totally succeeds in creating its own reality, viewers don't ask themselves real-world questions while it's playing and instead allow themselves to be immersed in the cinematic world. However, when a movie tries to create its own ...